Catcher In The Rye Movie Vs Book

J.D Salinger’s biggest request was to never make his literature a part of the meaningless hollywood world. He gave his readers hints in the book Catcher in the Rye“If there’s one thing I hate, it’s the movies," he writes. "Don’t even mention them to me.” this turned out to be very true because films are far from the truth and cliche. Scott Imad and Chris disobeyed Salingers request by creating a spectacular film that accurately depicts the book. The scenes we chose stood out the most in the book and were the critical scenes that really made the book impact the lives of young readers and holden’s life especially. The first scene was holden's call to adventure where he gave up on school and hated all the friends he had. Holden chose to leave all his problems and head to new york city to start a new life. The first scene is where holden tries to preserve jane's innocence and getting stradlater away from her this ends in a fight where …show more content…
The second scene is the taxi cab driver scene where holden asks a what seems to be intelligent questions but this question represents himself. He brings up the ducks and how they find somewhere to to when it's cold outside symbolizing tough times and struggles he himself wants to find a place to go during his hardships this scene is crucial to the movie because it is about him being documented as he goes along this treacherous journey. The third scene was when holden finally arrived to his hotel room after a life changing decision this is where he thinks he is at home but when he looks out the window he realizes he is in a strange place with disturbing images. He is intrigued yet disturbed but still searches for an answer to where he's going to go. Holden feels very lonely at this point and he has no one to talk